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How a Family Care Physician Can Save Your Life

Hitchcock Family Medicine

If possible, the same applies to helping prevent conditions like cancer and other illnesses. Personal Injuries Physicians are great for much more than a checkup or sore throat. Your doctor will monitor every condition, whether you have weight loss goals or a mental illness. When you receive quality care, it's life-saving.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. Emmy: That, to me, is the ideal checkup-type situation. Emmy: So that older person or person with maybe terminal illness or developing impairments, it might make sense for them to just keep driving because they don’t have a good replacement. ” Eric: Oh.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care. So when I turned 40, I went in to get my checkup. Most of the public wants to have access to treatments and interventions that might help them forestall a devastating illness. So we’re talking about primary care and so I’m a little bit biased here.